Over 100 competitors in nine different sports will represent Bermuda at this month's NatWest Island Games in Guernsey.

While the Island's major sports, such as soccer, cricket and track and field, won't be sending teams, several less popular activities will have a presence as Bermuda makes its debut in the biennial festival, which began in 1985.

Saltus schoolteacher and prominent Bermuda Football Association member Jon Beard, who has coordinated the Island's first entry, confirmed yesterday that the sports of archery, badminton, basketball, cycling, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, triathlon and volleyball would carry the Bermuda banner.

The Games get underway on June 28 and run until July 4.

Altogether 2,500 competitors from 23 islands will take part in a total of 15 different sports.

Other islands represented will be: Aland, Alderney, Caymans, Falklands, Faroe Islands, Froya, Gibraltar, Gotland, Greenland, Guernsey, Hitra, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Jersey, Orkney, Prince Edward Island, Rhodes, Saaremaa, Sark, Shetland Isles, St. Helena, Western Isles and Ynys Mon.

The full Bermuda squad has been named as follows:

Archery - Jeane Butterfield, Paul Harshaw, David Hesketh (competitor and team manager), Irena Peti.

Badminton - Kenneth Bremar, Tracey DeSilva, Rick Dorush (competitor and team manager), Anna Janczewska, Harold Minors, Amanda Smith, Solveiga Stasaityte, Stephen Wellman, Ian Wilkie.

Basketball - Dion Bean, Dustin Ferris, Lee Greene, Dale Jackson, John Lee, Charles Peters, Gavin Mackenzie (coach), Ryan Rabain, Jason Simons, Steve Simons, Michael Smith, Roderick Spencer (coach), Garth Thomson (also cycling), Gregory Todd, Tim Trott (coach, team manager)

Cycling - Jean Nicolas Bertrand, Danielle Bezant (cycling president), Melanie Claude, Andrew Davis, Neil de Ste Croix, Keith Fenn, Sharon Fenn, Julia Hawley, Jennifer Hedges (team manager), MacInnis Looby, Geri Mewett, Karl Outerbridge, Lynn Patchett, Kent Richardson, Wayne Scott, Garth Thomson (also basketball).

Gymnastics - Maya Beckles, Kalena Astwood, Maria Darby, Casey Lopes, Walid Mustafa (coach), Keva Piper (team manager), Mornay Piper, Brittany Repose.

Swimming - Ashley Aitken, Kiera Aitken, Deborah Botelho (team manager), Roy Allan Burch, Kathy Cowen (coach), Ronald Cowen, Anastasia Lau, Michael O'Connor, Graham Smith

Table tennis - Peter DeFreitas, Myron Piper (competitor and team manager), Alden Ray

Triathlon - Lea Butterfield, Jeffrey Conyers, Alexander Jones, Deanna McMullen, David Morrison (team manager), Jamie Pedro

Volleyball - Juanita Blee, Bill Bucci (coach), John Burt (coach), Sophie Campeau, Mark Coy, Stacey Dorush, Lori Erickson, Adam Fowler (coach), Jon Gazzard (competitor, women's coach), Mike Gazzard, Wendy Gazzard, David Gletsu, Eric Haller, Cynthia Hamilton, Mark Hamilton, Joan Harper, Lisa Haynes (coach), Julie Hendrix, Ihab Khalil, Nathan Kowalski, Gary Leblanc (competitor and team manager), Carol Monaghan, Elizabeth Rae, Bruno Richard, Andrew Soares, Denise Somerville, Elisa Stubbs, Adam Wong

Others - Jon Beard (Island Chairman), Maureen Ryan (team physio), Randolph Horton (Minister of Sport).